VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2023 | REIMAGINING OUR SYSTEMS
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Keynote and Fireside Chat Panel
Stephanie Welch (she/her)
Deputy Secretary of Behavioral Health, California Health and Human Services (CalHHS)
Stephanie Welch (she/her) is the Deputy Secretary of Behavioral Health for the California Health and Human Services (CalHHS) Agency. Stephanie has over two decades of experience in behavioral health policy, program administration, evaluation, and advocacy at both the state and county level, working at organizations such as the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), the County Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA) and the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies (CBHA). Stephanie holds an MSW from the University of Southern California and a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Davis.
Michelle Doty Cabrera (she/her)
Executive Director, County Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA)
Michelle Doty Cabrera (she/her) is the Executive Director of CBHDA, a statewide association representing the behavioral health directors from California’s 58 counties, in addition to the Tri-City (Cities of Pomona, Claremont and La Verne) and City of Berkeley Mental Health Authorities.
Prior to joining CBHDA, she served as the Healthcare Director for the California State Council of the Services Employees International Union (SEIU California), where she advocated on behalf of healthcare workers and consumers, including SEIU California’s county behavioral health workforce, on issues related to Medicaid, behavioral health, universal health coverage, health equity, and cost containment, among others. She served as a Senior Consultant for the Assembly Human Services Committee, where she specialized in child welfare issues and staffed legislation which extended foster care in California to age 21. She also served as a Program Officer for the California Healthcare Foundation, working as a liaison on state health policy in Sacramento. Ms. Cabrera was an inaugural member of the National Quality Forum’s Standing Committee on Disparities which developed a roadmap to advance health equity through data and quality measurement.
Ms. Cabrera has been appointed to the California Disability and Aging Community Living Advisory Committee, and served as an appointed member of Governor Newsom’s Council of Regional Homeless Advisors. She graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service.
Juan Acosta (he/him)
Mental Health Advocate, Activist and Warmline Community Engagement Lead, Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Juan Acosta (he/him) is a first-generation Mexican immigrant who began his advocacy work locally at age 13. At 21, Juan drafted a historic LGBTQ+ proclamation for his hometown of Woodland, California. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Francisco State University. Juan has done work throughout the state of California, across the country, and around the world. His work is focused on underserved communities specifically on the LGBTQ+, Immigrant and Latinx community. He has spoken at United Nations Side Events and the first-ever Youth Mental Health Action Forum White House Event. Juan co-authored the New York Times Bestselling “Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community” with musical artist and actress Lady Gaga + other Born This Way Foundation Reporters. He regularly collaborates with numerous organizations and brands. His work has been featured by Mashable, Oprah Magazine, DOSOMETHING, MTV, LGBTQ Nation and more. He currently serves as a Board Member for Steinberg Institute.
Learning Track 1: Crisis Continuum of Care
Camden Webb (he/him)
Clinical Services Director, Solano County Office of Education
Camden Webb (he/him) is the Clinical Services Director with Solano County Office of Education. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Ohio State University and obtained his Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He brings over twenty years of experience in the field of youth mental health, with specific specializations in treating youth who have experienced complex trauma and attachment disruptions. As the Clinical Director, Camden oversees the School Based Mobile Crisis Team, as well as other vital mental health and wellness initiatives that are infused into Solano County school communities. In leading the clinical team, he upholds the values of providing equitable, culturally responsive and trauma informed services to the students and families served by SCOE.
Elaine Peng (she/her)
Executive Director and Founder, Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities
Elaine Peng (she/her) is the Executive Director and Founder of the Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities (MHACC) and a dedicated mental health advocate and educator. The stigma and pain that many Chinese American families often suffer silently as they struggle with mental illness and challenges in navigating a fragmented mental health system, has been the driving force behind Elaine’s tireless efforts in advocacy and mental health education. Elaine is a leader and developer of multiple mental health programs for the Chinese American community. She is the recipient of the 2016 NAMI National’s Multicultural Outreach Award, the 2017 NAMI California’s Multicultural Outreach Award, and the 2015-2011 Community Hero awards.
Jamie Sellar (he/him)
Chief Strategy Officer, RI International
Jamie Sellar, MA, LPC (he/him) is a behavioral health executive with 25 years of successful experience in running crisis programs in multiple states. These programs have included both inpatient, sub-acute, residential, mobile crisis outreach teams, hospital rapid response, and mental health urgent care centers. Currently, Jamie specializes in crisis system development and operational management. In his current role as Chief Strategy Officer at RI International, he consults both nationally and internationally on topics such as crisis system optimization, peer use in the workforce and program design. Jamie has a long history of training professionals and paraprofessionals on practical client engagement strategies. A licensed clinician, Jamie strongly believes that the rapport between caregivers and those in need is a primary driver of success in crisis work. RI is a global organization with more than 50 behavioral health programs throughout the United States and abroad, provides Crisis, Health, Recovery and Consulting services, wherein our values and priorities include: maintaining a recovery culture, ensuring clinical best practices, making safety a priority for all, measuring value and results, optimizing quality and compliance, and serving as a key resource for First Responders.
Kristian Skillman (she/her)
Clinical Services Supervisor, Solano County Office of Education- Clinical Services
Kristian Skillman (she/her) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Clinical Services Supervisor with the Solano County Office of Education. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and began her career as a residential youth counselor in 2006. As a youth residential counselor, Kristian developed a desire to advocate and support the mental health needs of youth, which led to her pursuing her Master’s in Community Counseling. While earning her master’s degree, Kristian continued to work in the mental health field providing services to youth. Since graduating with her master’s degree in 2009, Kristian has provided school-based clinical support to youths and families in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and Solano County. In her current role with the Solano County Office of Education, Kristian provides direct and indirect services to youth and the greater Solano community to promote suicide intervention and psychoeducation, along with challenging stigma that impacts access to mental health services.
Rachael Chan (she/her)
Program Coordinator, Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities
Rachael Chan (she/her) is a program coordinator at the Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities (MHACC) and a member of Community for Better Citizens (CBC). She is currently studying Business Economics at the University of California San Diego. Due to her childhood experiences, she has a strong empathy for disadvantaged groups. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Rachael devoted her time working with the MHACC team for their two mobile apps, one for suicide survivors and one for mental health caregivers. She represented MHACC at the Chinese American Convention in Washington D.C. and was a speaker at the MHACC booth. Her greatest desire is to do her best and bring warmth and love into this world.
Rosaline Qi (she/her)
Project Manager and Support Specialist, Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities
Rosaline Qi (she/her) is a dedicated mental health advocate and recent graduate of Columbia University, currently pursuing further education in psychology. Rosaline has a diverse background, including experience in special education and arts therapy, which she brings to her work as both project manager and support specialist at the Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities (MHACC). She is passionate about mental health research and committed to providing culturally responsive, accessible care to individuals and communities in need.
Vida Khavar (she/her)
Clinical Director, Family Builders by Adoption
Vida Khavar, LMFT (she/her) has 25+ years’ experience in child welfare. She has assisted many organizations in developing programs that serve children and families. Vida was a consultant for the federal project RISE, which aimed at improving the lives of LGBTQ+ youth in foster care in Los Angeles County. She is currently the Clinical Director at Family Builders. As such, she collaborates with the California Department of Social Services in developing and implementing affirming policies and practices for LGBTQ+ children in foster care. Vida also leads the Youth Acceptance Project and provides her clinical expertise to several jurisdictions throughout the country.
Learning Track 2: Justice Diversion
Ali Guajardo (he/him)
Clinician, Community Health Centers
Ali Guajardo, LCSW (he/him) is a behavioral health provider with Community Health Centers, working out of the Lompoc clinic where he provides therapeutic services to marginalized and underserved transitional age youth with a specialization in transgender mental health. Ali was raised in the Los Angeles area. He earned his Master’s Degree in Social Work at Rutgers University and is trained in DBT and EMDR. He utilizes an eclectic, person-centered, trauma informed approach in working with diverse communities. He has over six years’ experience in crisis response, has worked with foster youth, commercially and sexually exploited children (CSEC), families, and unhoused communities with programs such as Wraparound, Resiliency Interventions for Sexual Exploitation (RISE) and behavioral health services in primary care setting. Ali’s passion for this work is fueled by his life experiences, his ultimate goal is to help others not just survive but thrive. As a former foster youth and transgender man with a decade of experience serving BIPOC and/or queer communities. Ali weaves experiential knowledge with clinical expertise to offer intersectional approaches to mental healthcare. His therapeutic practice acknowledges the impacts of overlapping privileges and oppressions including race, socioeconomic status, ability, gender and sexuality among others to offer validating, culturally responsive treatment.
Ana Ramirez Zarate (she/her)
Research Analyst I, Impact Justice
Ana Ramirez Zarate (she/her) is an experienced researcher and focuses on organizing at the intersections of the criminal justice and immigrant rights movements and supporting to build the capacity of directly impacted individuals. She led the development of a Participatory Defense space to support families and individuals facing charges to ultimately impact the outcome of their cases through community advocacy. Within her work of empowering and supporting families, she’s centered those most impacted in developing solutions for systems change and policy campaigns. Ana’s lived experience has informed her involvement in the field of crimmigration. She believes in the power of political education and the importance of building capacity and supporting the leadership of directly impacted individuals. Ana believes that in order to begin undoing many of the harms experienced by the immigrant community there needs to be a focus on the criminal justice system. Ana holds an M.A. in Public Policy from UC Riverside with an emphasis on immigration, race and ethnicity.
Brandon Miller (he/him)
Research Analyst II, Impact Justice
Brandon Miller (he/him) brings a depth of learned knowledge and lived experience to reentry-, community reintegration-, and recidivism-related issues. His research includes examining family and support networks’ saliency during the reentry and reintegration process for returning citizens, examining public perception of formerly incarcerated individuals in San Jose, California, as well as examining social influences on juvenile recidivism. He holds an M.S. in justice studies from San Jose State University.
Dani Soto (they/them)
Interim Director, Research & Action Center, Impact Justice
Dani Soto, Ph.D. (they/them) has more than a decade of experience in research and analysis of adolescent well-being and risk, with a focus on gendered and racial and ethnic inequalities. Dr. Soto graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in sociology (juvenile delinquency emphasis) from the University of Montana. Dr. Soto received a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in sociology/criminology, specializing in juvenile delinquency and minoring in family studies and quantitative methods. Dr. Soto recognizes that true justice requires attention paid to the intersections of race/ethnicity, sexuality and sexual identity, sex and gender expression, gender identity, and socioeconomic status, and frequently examines disparities in these areas.
Isabella Restrepo (she/they)
Researcher, doctoral candidate
Isabella Restrepo (she/they) is a queer, Latina, child of immigrants who uses her experiential knowledge to inform her current work. Isabella is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a 2023-2024 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Restrepo’s work unpacks the relationship between mental health services and the carceral state to decouple criminalization from care; their work engages with feminist based approaches to mental health to argue that the foster care system and other programs meant to help youth extend the reaches of the carceral state in the lives of Latina foster girls.
Steven Samra (he/him)
Senior Associate, C4 Innovations
Steven Samra (he/him) initiated medication-assisted treatment in 2010. Along with concurrent exposure to and immersion in recovery principles and activities, Mr. Samra enjoys full recovery from homelessness, trauma, substance/opioid use, criminal justice involvement, and mental health challenges. He served as the deputy director on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Bringing Recovery Support to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy project for nine years and is currently a senior recovery team member for the Opioid Response Network, where he promotes recovery and assists others with their own recovery journeys. He provides training and technical assistance focused on Medication Assisted Recovery, recovery housing, capacity building for peer-run and recovery community organizations, stigma and harm reduction, trauma informed care, peer leadership, and outreach and engagement with people experiencing homelessness.
Learning Track 3: Workforce Development
Adrian Bernard (he/him)
Peer Respite Manager, Encompass Community Services/2nd Story Peer Respite House
Adrian Bernard (he/him) was a co-founder of 2nd Story, peer respite house and has served as the manager for almost nine years. Adrian works with NAMI Santa Cruz as a trainer and also has trained staff in Motivational Interviewing and Co-Occurring Conditions at his parent organization, Encompass Community Services. Adrian loves walking alongside the community of peers, as it is the community he longed for during struggles early on. He currently studies in a masters program for social work.
Ebony Chambers McClinton (she/her)
Chief Equity and Partnership Officer, Stanford Sierra Youth and Families
Ebony Chambers McClinton (she/her) is the Chief Equity & Partnership Officer at Stanford Sierra Youth and Families and has over 20 years of experience working with issues of equity, child welfare and mental health. Ebony brings both professional and personal life experiences to her work and provides the oversight of advocacy and support to families in the Northern California Region. Chambers has provided extensive advocacy and training in leadership, child welfare, culturally responsive practices to schools, universities, social service and mental health agencies through her work in non-profit, consulting and for the UC Davis Center for Family Focused Practice.
Juliet Yonek (she/her)
Assistant Professional Researcher at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Juliet Yonek, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professional Researcher in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Juliet’s research focuses on using implementation science frameworks and methods to guide and evaluate the adoption of empirically-supported behavioral health services in pediatric practice settings. She is Co-Investigator on JJBH ECHO, a telementoring program in best-practice behavioral health care for community providers serving systems-impacted youth. She also leads a mixed-methods evaluation of the UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal, a child psychiatry consultation program for pediatric primary care practices (PCP) serving as front-line care providers for mental health in California.
Laura Minero (she/her)
Licensed Psychologist and Founder, Yolotl Libre Therapy
Laura Minero, Ph.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist and specializes in working with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Spanish-speaking and immigrants via her independent practice Yolotl Libre Therapy, Training, and Consulting. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology and is dedicated to revolutionizing systems that adversely impact undocumented, queer, trans, and BIPOC communities. In recognition of her contributions to being a champion for anti-racism, equity and liberation, Dr. Minero has received numerous state and national service awards from the National Latinx Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Association’s Division for Counseling Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race.
Lauren M. Haack (she/her)
Associate Professor at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lauren M. Haack, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Associate Professor and licensed clinical psychologist focused on cultural influences to mental health conceptualization, assessment, and treatment; accessible and culturally-attuned evidence-based services for traditionally underserved youth worldwide; and behavioral health provider experience, training, and consultation. Her work is featured on her lab website: Strivelab.ucsf.edu. When not conducting clinical research, Dr. Haack provides instruction and consultation/supervision on various UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science teams, including the Clinical Psychology Training Program, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program, the Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health team, and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal.
Matthew Diep (he/him)
Program Manager, California Youth Empowerment Network (CAYEN)
Matthew Diep (he/him) is a Queer, Vietnamese-American man who brings his education, professional experience and lived experience with the behavioral health system into his role as the Program Manager at the California Youth Empowerment Network (CAYEN). Prior to his role at CAYEN, Matthew founded a community-based nonprofit called Psypher that uses the expressive arts to facilitate youth-led discussions about mental health, developed programming for domestic violence prevention amongst Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth at the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), served on the Board of Directors for the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA), and facilitated statewide youth advocacy on the Youth Innovation Project Planning Committee (YIPPC) at the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC). He is excited to share how his journey of owning his lived experience has brought him into spaces where he’s been able to connect with community members and play a role in supporting their mental health.
Phoenix MacKinnon (she/her)
Peer Support Worker, 2nd Story Respite House
Phoenix MacKinnon (she/her) has been a peer support worker at 2nd Story Respite House in Aptos, California for four years. This work led to becoming a Board Director at Housing Matters after experiencing homelessness. Recently, she was trained to become a NAMI Ambassador, Santa Cruz. Phoenix is a jazz musician with an A.A. in Music from Cabrillo College and a member of the LGBTQ community.
Rebecca Kim (she/her)
Peer Workforce Manager, NAMI CA
Rebecca Kim (she/her) is the Peer Workforce Manager at NAMI Ca. She has experience in mental health advocacy, outreach, and Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification training. Prior to joining NAMI California, she studied at the University of California, Merced, and majored in Public Health. She gained experiences that have honed her ability to thrive in diverse group settings, perform community outreach, and advocate for underserved community members. She understands the issues and mechanisms that frequently affect underserved communities and looks forward to further learn and adapting her efforts to best help anyone or any group that she may have the pleasure to serve.
Rowan Willis-Powell (she/they)
Project Coordinator, C4 Innovations
Rowan Willis-Powell (she/they) is an experienced systems transformation advocate, with special interests in young adult peers, the LGBTQ community and ensuring that everyone receives appropriate and individualized care when they are experiencing suicidal ideation. Rowan has 9 years of experience connecting and mentoring young adults with lived experience in behavioral health servicing settings to peer support career pathways and leadership opportunities on community, state, and national levels. Rowan has supported numerous organizations and groups in developing and implementing youth voice informed projects ranging from Continuum of Care (CoC) Programs working to implement Youth Reach Homelessness counts and individual nonprofits working to develop youth advisory boards for their behavioral health housing programs. Rowan has recently joined the C4 Innovations team as a member of Center for Youth Wellbeing. There they work to ensure that voices of lived experiences are at the forefront of all the work being done and are supporting the Project Amp team to continue to grow the work being done. Before joining the C4 team Rowan worked at On Our Own of Maryland where she ran three statewide grants, directed the What Helps What Harms youth-driven system quality feedback project, and helped run the legislative arm of the organization. Rowan is a member of Maryland’s first Commission on LGBTQ Affairs, is the facilitator and creator of numerous workshops, has presented two keynotes about mentorship and leadership, and was the President of the Board of Directors for Youth Move National. Rowan has been invited as an expert speaker to numerous SAMHSA expert convenings to share her experiences and knowledge about suicidal ideation, crisis services, and youth voice.
Wayne Lindstrom (he/him)
Vice President of Consulting and Business Development, RI International
Wayne W. Lindstrom, Ph.D. (he/him) currently serves as the VP for Business Development and Consulting for RI International, Inc. From 2014 to 2019, he was the Director of the Behavioral Health Services Division (BHSD) within the Human Services Department and the CEO of the BH Collaborative for the State of New Mexico. He also served as President of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Prior to this, he was the president and CEO of Mental Health America (MHA) in Washington DC. He has worked in community mental health settings, hospitals, emergency departments, corporate environments, and private practice while also teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Learning Track 4: County-focused MHSA Programming and Administration
Angela Brand (she/her)
CARE TA Center Project Director, Center for Applied Research Solutions
Angela Brand (she/her) is an experienced professional with a history of work in the public and private sectors of the mental health care industry focused on programming, community engagement, advocacy, training, and workforce development to support consumers, family members, youth, and communities. Her passion includes working with consumers, families, and youth to support dynamic and meaningful involvement in all aspects and levels of decision making to develop systems that improve access to care through community-based and recovery-focused programs that are reflective of and responsive to the needs of the diverse populations. She is currently the CARE TA Center Project Director for the Center for Applied Research Solution (CARS). Before joining the team at CARS, she worked for NAMI California, Mental Health America California, the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and United Advocates for Children and Families. Her areas of special interest include peer support, trauma-informed care, prevention, early intervention, and education. Her work is driven by a passion to support systems that improve access to care through community-based and recovery-focused programs that are reflective of and responsive to the needs of diverse populations. She holds a degree in sociology from Arizona State University, with an emphasis on how the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and gender impact social justice issues.
Carole McKindley-Alvarez (she/her)
Consultant, California Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards and Commissions (CALBHB/C)
Carole McKindley-Alvarez, PsyD (she/her) has provided consultation and training on mental health services for over 20 years locally and nationally, including training for the CA Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards and Commissions (CALBHB/C). Cultural relevance is a core focus of her work. She also serves as Chief Program Officer for Davis Street in San Leandro, is a professor, a psychologist and a consultant on organizational systemic change. Additionally, she served as a member and past-chair of the Contra Costa County Mental Health Commission.
Debbie Innes-Gomberg (she/her)
Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Debbie Innes-Gomberg, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Deputy Director for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health with responsibility for Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, Outcomes and Training. Over the course of her 30 year career with Los Angeles County, she has assumed leadership roles, overseeing the administration of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) from 2009 to 2019, outcome evaluation from 2006 until the present, prevention services, adult services, Jail Mental Health Services and served as a District Chief for the Long Beach/South Bay areas of Los Angeles County for 6 years. Dr. Innes-Gomberg is a member of the American and California Psychological Associations, as well as their Public Service Divisions (CPA- Div. 4 and APA- Div 18). She is the 2023 Chair of the California Quality Improvement Committee (CalQIC) Conference. She has served as the Co-Chair of the County Behavioral Health Directors’ Association’s (CBHDA) MHSA Committee, including a member of its Governing Board. She is a leader in LA County and across the State on outcome evaluation of public mental health programs.
Flor Yousefian Tehrani (she/her)
Program Manager, Orange County Innovation Projects
Flor Yousefian Tehrani, Psy.D., LMFT (she/her) is the Program Manager over MHSA Innovation Projects in Orange County. Dr. Tehrani has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of MHSA Innovation projects since 2011. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and earned a Doctor in Couple and Family Therapy degree from Alliant International University, Irvine.
Jamie Sellar (he/him)
Chief Strategy Officer, RI International
Jamie Sellar, MA, LPC (he/him) is a behavioral health executive with 25 years of successful experience in running crisis programs in multiple states. These programs have included both inpatient, sub-acute, residential, mobile crisis outreach teams, hospital rapid response, and mental health urgent care centers. Currently, Jamie specializes in crisis system development and operational management. In his current role as Chief Strategy Officer at RI International, he consults both nationally and internationally on topics such as crisis system optimization, peer use in the workforce and program design. Jamie has a long history of training professionals and paraprofessionals on practical client engagement strategies. A licensed clinician, Jamie strongly believes that the rapport between caregivers and those in need is a primary driver of success in crisis work. RI is a global organization with more than 50 behavioral health programs throughout the United States and abroad, provides Crisis, Health, Recovery and Consulting services, wherein our values and priorities include: maintaining a recovery culture, ensuring clinical best practices, making safety a priority for all, measuring value and results, optimizing quality and compliance, and serving as a key resource for First Responders.
Michael Geiss (he/him)
President, Geiss Consulting
Michael Geiss (he/him) is the founder of Geiss Consulting, a Sacramento-based management consulting firm. He has over thirty-six years’ experience providing services to public sector agencies. Prior to establishing Geiss Consulting, he had over nine years management consulting experience with NewPoint Group and seven years with Ernst & Young. He specializes in financial and economic analyses, business process improvement and operations analyses. Mr. Geiss has managed and participated in over one-hundred separate engagements for various State of California and other government entities, including more than twenty projects for the California Department of Mental Health, numerous projects for more than 47 county mental health agencies in California, and various projects for the California Behavioral Health Directors’ Association, the California Mental Health Services Authority and the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions.